The Babel Vaccine

Did you see where many of our politicians got their Covid-19 injections yesterday? They're so proud. President Trump will tell you that Operation Warp Speed was a success. President Elect Joe Biden says he will do whatever the scientists say in trying to fight the pandemic. We're so proud. So proud.

Do you remember the Tower of Babel? What an accomplishment by man! What did God do as a result? He scattered mankind across the face of the globe. Why? Because the people became too powerful, too prideful. united together for a single cause. They built their own "stairway to heaven" without God's help, guidance or blessing.

"The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them." - Genesis 11:6

Am I the only one who thinks we have done a bad thing here by trusting in science alone? Where was our national call to prayer? If I am reading my Bible right, I think this vaccine will turn out to be our eventual undoing. Open your Bibles to Jeremiah, the 17th chapter.

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord. 6 That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

7 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. 8 They will be like a tree planted by the water  that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green.

It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” - Jeremiah 17:5-8

Did we have any worries about the Covid-19 pandemic? Just a few. We closed our schools, shut down businesses, travel, changed our workplace practices, held sporting events with no one there, and shamed people who were out walking the dog without a mask on.

I think we as a nation should have spent more time in prayer at the get-go. And I am the worst offender. However, not everyone in our country believes in God. And, from where I sit, that's a problem. Fewer and fewer people claim faith in Christ these days. Church attendance dwindles, if our churches are even open. We have turned our backs on God.

But in a crisis more people do tend to pray. Perhaps that's why this pandemic cis upon us. But have we prayed enough?

What we need is a revival in this country, and in this world. But will it come? I don't know. I think we Americans have become too comfortable and comfort is a tool used by Satan to create lukewarm Christians.

However, "all things are possible with God." - Matthew 19:26

Let us pray then for this nation. Let us pray for God to heal us, not trusting merely in man to do so. Many will see this vaccine as (sorry) "a shot in the arm" for humanity, FROM humanity. Instead, we need to be on our knees. I must be on my knees. Let us trust in The Lord first and foremost! Then watch what He can do.

Maybe God sent the man or woman who created the vaccine. I don't know. But where is our praise to God in this vaccine? I haven't seen any. And that's another problem.

Our Need of Revival - Leonard Ravenhill